Officers of the Mint in the Tower of London. King and all the lords and commons of...

Petitioners

Officers of the Mint in the Tower of London.

Addressees

King and all the lords and commons of his realm.

Nature of request

The officers of the Mint in the Tower of London state, as they have often done previously without being heard, that for lack of a good ordinance, gold and silver is not being brought into the country for them, but much of what there is present is being exported, and what is left is being weakened by the deceit of clippers and for other reasons. They request good counsel and a remedy on this, warning that if this does not happen, what was once 5 s. will only be worth 4s.

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Tower of London, [London]

London.

For a near-duplicate of this petition with a response, see SC 8/19/932

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1914), p.193 (instructions to collectors of customs in London to implement an ordinance made at the request of the commons at the last parliament for increasing the supply of gold and silver money in the realm)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.126a-b, no.2 (full edition of original petition) & p.64a (common petition in the same terms as this petition)